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Peter Sellers is a 34-year-old British funnyman who, as one of his fans puts it, "looks like anonymity with 'air on." In recent years he has established himself as one of BBC's top radio and television comics. Last year U.S. moviegoers became vaguely aware of him as a hilarious assistant heavy in torn thumb (TIME, Jan. 5, 1959) and as three other people in a farce called The Mouse That Roared (TIME, Nov. 9). Last week, as two of his latest pictures were released simultaneously in the U.S., Sellers stood suddenly revealed as a major...
...night in Greenwich Village. At Frank's suggestion, he was booked into the big time. Stints on Jack Paar's TV show and CBS's freewheeling Keep Talking got him national attention and a chance to be the kind of comedian he likes-a sad-faced funnyman whose effortless humor seems spontaneous but is the product of endless preparation. "People don't guffaw just looking at me," says he. "I have to compensate for that. I read obituary columns. I call hospitals and ask how things are in surgery. Little things that keep...
Twice divorced (most recently from Singer Marion Hutton), Humorist Douglas, 50, who opens this week as one-man funnyman in a nightclub act, has a ready answer to questions about who his next wife will be. "Princess Margaret, of course," cracks Douglas, but his previous choices are on his mind too. He has netted more than $10,000 in the two months since his book was published and moans: "I can see the ex-wives closing in now." Says Jack Paar: "I think it would be fair to say that Mr. Douglas does all his writing under the influence...
...still going strong back in Shor's one winter afternoon of 1958. This time it drew a delighted audience in Funnyman Jonathan Winters (TIME, Oct. 13), who was scrabbling about in unquiet desperation, trying to scare up some good acts for his stint as host on the Paar show. He invited Harrington...
...Uncle (French). A wicked satire on mechanized modern living by Jacques (Mr. Hulot's Holiday) Tati, who is probably the funniest funnyman in films, but in this one overdoes his wit by at least 30 minutes...